I shocked a bit, when the metallic looking door opened with a heavy slam. A man, in a uniform, stepped outside. Of course he was wearing a uniform. He came towards me and asked me to follow him. I started to feel a bit nervous, warm blood runned into my head, but I was able to keep mostly calm. I greeted him and said “Guten Tag”. I felt a bit irritated because I greeted him on Rheinlandish, while we were in Colonial space. But the man who invited me to follow him didn’t care much, at least it was looking like he didn’t.
I followed him, with long and slow steps, which made a metallic sounds when hitted the ground. After we passed a few rooms, he opened a door. The room I was following him into, was small, maybe only 5 sq. m.. A desk, and 2 seats were in the room. He sitted down on one of the seats and I on the other, the desk in the middle. He was looking straight into my eyes, and I tried to keep up looking at his too. The whole situation wasn’t feeling very comfortable for me, but at least I was relative chilled.
Without waiting much, he already began talking and presented himself. He was not waiting for me to present myself and directly asked several questions.
“Greetings, recruit. I am Commissar Dmitry Dubovik, you can call me Comrade Commissar. Your biography is rather interesting. So you're implying that you came up all the way from normal boy to a business man, owned your own trade ship and a crew, gained profits and then suddenly turned into a communist? Why would you do that? Isnt money-making arent good fpr you anymore?
And how did it happen that the Red Hessians has let you live after capturing your ship?”
He placed his questions so fast that I had some problems first to collect myself and start talking.
“Äähm. Hello, Comrade Commissar. Well, yes, I must agree that my biography seems a bit irritating and like some tales out of school.” Somehow I had to grin for a second. “It might take a bit longer to explain”
“Take your time” he said monotonous.
“As I have written down in my biography, I was the child in a worker’s family. My parent’s tought me a lot about the damage which their work, as Synth Foods employees, brings to the people and their environment, and how the company’s exploit everything they have influence at.” I stopped for a second and remembered the bad feelings I had back then, it still hurted me. “Nah, with the growing disagree with this stuff I decided to leave Stuttgart, but there was no other way then to join the Military, since I was too poor to buy a ship or to fly with a Liner. And my family didn’t support me anyway. Only through the time in the Military I was able to buy a ship to fly far away from Stuttgart. Not to end without money I started trading, but it wasn’t profitable inside Rheinland because of the big companies, which already delivered every important.” I sighted. “So I had to yield to the Omegas. There then I was able to make more profits. I had a lot of talkings with people from the Omega systems up to Bretonain space. Well, as I realized, I shared my thoughts and disagree with the Rheinland politics with many other people as deeper as I was in the Omicrons. Trading wasn’t really something I did to gain money and get rich. I traded in the Omegas to evade Rheinland space and Rheinland society.” I laid back in the back of the chair now, grinning. “Well, Hessians don’t like if you runned from them when you trade their diamond ores. One day I got caught behind a jumphole. Maybe I am just lucky that hessians are no blind murderers, so I was able to excuse myself. Still, the few hessians thought they could need a bit more metal for their own shipyards, or whatever their reasons were, so they forced me to follow him to Ronneburg. I never got to know what to my ship happened then” *sighs* “I was left then on the base with a bit money and my clothes, and had the choice: Join the Hessians, get a Freelancer, or die. But none of these is what I really wanted. I even disagreed with most of Hessians politics. But when I heard there will head a convoy to the Coalition, I took this chance.” Now, showing a friendly face, I said: “And then, I settled down in Colonial space, got used to their way of life, learned their temper, and I liked it. The lone way that I see to show this now is to fight for what I like. This is the reason, why I am sitting in front of you. I am willing to fight for the subject I believe in!”
Now, with an keen feeling in my whole body, I was sitting upright in the seat, and awaited the Commissar's awnser.